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The Fauci testimony was such a shit show.

He is such a reasoned, impressive speaker who understands nuance and communicates it well.

But Republicans are allergic to nuance. So that did not matter at all.

And they can't handle that he made suggestions based on a complex set of variables during a time when we did not have all of the information necessary. Yes, he and his team guessed. And those guesses were mostly accurate. But they are acting like the guesses that didn't turn out to be 100% right were some horrible travesty.

Aside from the conspiracy theories the big thing they tried to trip him up with was the 6 foot distancing. He said that recommendation was not based on science. And it wasn't. There were no studies at that point. It was just a common-sense measure.

Like, if someone is infected with a potentially deadly virus, what's the closest you want to be to them?

Later studies showed 3 feet was probably enough distance. But do you really want to be the minimum distance away? So doubling that is probably exactly the distance it should have been.

That was a good fucking guess.

And they are acting like this kept grandmas from hugging their grandkids and everyone is going to be sad forever.

It was the COVID. The COVID kept them from hugging.

And then Marjorie just yelled for a while and kept repeating we should put an 80 year old retired scientist in prison for... reasons?

Personally, I'd prefer to put the convicted felon in prison.

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Some Cambrian ancestors of the worm on string

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People are so stupid about snakes. If there's a little black racer chilling outside just leave it alone, you don't have to kill it, it's probably dealing with all your pests for you, jesus christ

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I'm sorry I keep posting my tiktok comments but please. What does this mean. What do people THINK shipping is for anymore???

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Christofascism of the shittiest values unites the Right.

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SCOTUS taking power from federal regulators and giving more power to judges is not good.

We will get worse air, worse water, worse food, worse medicine, and shittier lives.

All hand-picked cases decided by the most corrupt Federalist Society judges.

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I cannot emphasize enough how much of a life hack it is to exclusively be friends with, date and marry people who are not constantly mean assholes to you.

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foods that will poison cats:

alcohol 

chocolate

caffeine

dairy products (adults turn lactose intolerant)

fat trimmings, raw meat, eggs, fish

grapes and raisins

onions and garlic

tuna (when not made for cats)

xylitol (artificial sweetener)

if you have a cat please reblog this

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A NEW DINOSAUR HAS BEEN DISCOVERED!!!!! NOT ONLY THAT, IT WAS ALSO NAMED AFTER THE NORSE GOD LOKI!!

BEHOLD THIS BEAUTIFUL DINOSAUR!! OH IT IS SO LOVELY!

HERE ARE SOME COOL PICTURES OF THE SKULL AND CASTS OF THE REAL BONES TO RECONSTRUCT THE SKULL

READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE:

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Hey everyone. With this horrible Etsy news, a lot of dildo makers are going to be losing business because even if they already have a separate website, I know most of their sales are through Etsy since that is the easiest way for new customers to find them.

Therefore, we need to do our part to promote the websites of these businesses.

Please reblog this and share your favorite dildo maker’s website.

Mine is Neotori. I’ve ordered several from them and they’re extremely high quality. They have a wide selection to choose from. Also despite being in Europe while I’m in the USA, shipping has always been quite fast. They also have seemed to be very easy to work with when there are problems. I first purchased from them through Etsy but I’ve made many purchases through their own website and it has always gone smoothly.

Another shop I like is Strange Bed Fellas. I’ve only purchased once from them but it went smoothly and was very high quality.

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Imagine if baking bread was a skill any person living independently in their own house needed to have at least a passing familiarity with, so there were endless books, blogs and websites about how to bake bread, but none of them seemed to contain the most basic facts about how bread actually works.

You would go online and find questions like "Help, I put my bread in the oven, and it GOT BIGGER!" and instead of saying anything about bread naturally rises when you put yeast in it, the results would be advertising some kind of $970 device that punches the bread while it's baking so it doesn't rise.

Even the most reliable, factually grounded sources available would have only the barest scraps of information on the particularities of ingredients, such as how different types of flour differ and produce different results, or how yeast affects the flavor profile of bread. Rice flour, barley flour, potato flour and amaranth flour would be just as common as wheat flour, but finding sources that didn't treat them as functionally identical would be near impossible. At the same time, websites and books would list specific brands of flour in bread recipes, often without specifying anything else.

An unreasonable amount of people would be hellbent on doing something like baking a full-sized loaf of bread in under 3 minutes, and would regularly bake bread to charred cinders at 700 degrees in an attempt to accomplish this, but instead of gently telling people that their goal is not realistic, books claiming to be general resources would be framed entirely around the goal of baking bread as fast as possible, with entire chapters devoted to making the charred bread taste like it isn't charred.

Anyway, this is what landscaping is like.